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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

But the point I have against the close-in-the-corner argument, as I
have said before, is that not every window is used maximized and some
windows cannot be maximized at all (System Settings, Calculator) so
there is never a common close spot.

Because the window buttons for maximized windows are hidden, then
there could be a case to have a set spot to aim for but the answer to
that is to keep the window buttons visible all the time.

I believe that is the direction the last discussion was heading and a
developer (Trevino) demonstrated a patch to keep the window buttons
showing always but nobody responded to it after that.

On 19 May 2012 19:16, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 13:06 -0500, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
>> If one uses autohide, this problem doesn't really exist because all of
>> the space below that corner is also being used. However, if one uses
>> the always-visible launcher, then the problem does exist. I suggest
>> that, if the user is using an always-visible launcher, the launcher
>> goes all the way to the top of the screen, cutting down those ~48px of
>> space from the panel but also removing that ugly corner. Yes, the
>> panel will be a little shorter, but it is, in my opinion, a good
>> sacrifice to remove that visual "glitch". Not sure if this has been
>> suggested before, but I'll suggest it again if it has.
>
> One big argument here is what we use the important top-left corner of
> the screen for. It's one of the easiest places on the screen to move the
> mouse quickly; and at the moment, the "close current window" button is
> there. If we lengthened the panel up to the top of the screen, the Dash
> button would be there instead, which at least I use less commonly than
> opening the window.
>
> (We don't make perfect use of the other screen corners either, by the
> way; bottom-left is for the trash, which is not the sort of thing that's
> accessed often enough to need a corner, and bottom-right isn't used for
> anything. I guess having an unbound corner is useful as Compiz allows
> you to bind things to screen corners, which would require a corner
> that's not already being used for other things.)
>
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